Desperate Housewives

Every Day a Little Death - S1-E12

Continuity mistake: When Edie throws the urn of ashes at Susan after she discovered Susan burned her house down, you can see that there is nothing on Edie's left shoulder, but when the camera angle changes to behind Edie in the next shot, her shoulder is now covered by her cardigan.

Every Day a Little Death - S1-E12

Continuity mistake: When Lynette signs the clipboard at yoga, a close-up shows her signing it with her right hand, but in the next shot she is holding Penny with her right hand and signing her name with her left.

Every Day a Little Death - S1-E12

Continuity mistake: When Carlos pulls Gabrielle down to the sofa for a neck massage, he places the fried chicken bucket by his side on the sofa. When Gabrielle stands up and refuses to have a baby, the bucket has disappeared, and when we see Carlos leaning back on the sofa a few moments later, he has the bucket held in his arm.

Every Day a Little Death - S1-E12

Continuity mistake: When Edie gets the phone call, saying Mrs Huber was found, while she is at Mike's, you can see the cell phone on the table where she is sitting. When the phone rings, she reaches to nowhere with her right hand and you can still see the phone. Then the view changes and you can see her getting the call with her left hand.

Love Is in the Air (a.k.a. What I Did for Love) - S1-E14

Continuity mistake: When Bree Van De Kamp is sitting on the couch talking to her marriage counselor, as she is doing so she picks up her purse and puts it on her lap, crossing her hands over it. When the camera switches back to her a second later the purse is back on the couch beside her in the exact position it was in before she picked it up.

Love Is in the Air (a.k.a. What I Did for Love) - S1-E14

Continuity mistake: When Lynette is chasing her neighbor out of her boys' bedroom and has a pillow in each hand, one is spotted and one is light blue. She raises the light blue pillow to throw at the neighbor. When the camera switches to the bedroom door, its the spotted pillow that hits the door behind the fleeing neighbor.

Impossible - S1-E15

Continuity mistake: Episode 15- When the housewives are sitting on the porch discussing Mike Delfino, Teri Hatcher's green shirt keeps changing positions in the shot. It goes from down around shoulders to close to her neck and back.

Children Will Listen - S1-E18

Continuity mistake: When Bree is preparing a care package to ship to Andrew's camp, she sneaks some lemon bars into the package, and quickly closes the two side flaps of the cardboard box, leaving the end flaps out. In the next shot, she is immediately taping the box with all flaps down.

Children Will Listen - S1-E18

Continuity mistake: Parker is tearing the flowers apart until there are none. In the next shot, there are some flowers left, and when he jumps off the chair, the flowers have gone again.

Fear No More - S1-E20

Continuity mistake: At the start of the episode, Zach picks up some gravel from beneath the lamppost and throws it at Julie's window. But when he leaves Susan the flowers, you can see that the gravel has disappeared.

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Bree Van De Kamp: It's the age-old question, isn't it? How much do we really want to know about our neighbours?

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Chosen answer: Poker. They have been playing that this whole time, once a week with everyone who was invited that lived on the Lane.

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